Cashew & Cardamom Milk Toffee

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WARNING! You may want to book an appointment with your dentist before making this. Just saying.

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MILK TOFFEE! *jazz hands*

This sweet meat is not too dissimilar to fudge in taste, just slightly more crumbly – like a cross between fudge and Indian barfi. It’s usually filled with cashews and raisins, but this time I opted out of the raisins for Ang’s sake. Yeah, she’s not their biggest fan.

 

I made this in April for the Sinhalese and Tamil New Year. Odd timing for a New Year you say? Well, when you really think of it everything bursts in to life in spring… the flowers, the chicks, the lambs…. so it kind of makes sense to celebrate a new beginning!

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Rhubarb & Custard Profiteroles

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Did it.

Jumped on the rhubarb bandwagon!

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I’d been wanting to make something with rhubarb ever since I’d spotted this Rhubarb Jam recipe from ‘Take A Megabite’ on Instagram. Though, the only time i’d ever really had rhubarb before was in a crumble, and I felt the need to shake things up. Hence making a dessert based on those sweet shop classics!

That, and the fact that it involved custard seemed appropriate! 😉

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Video: Lancaster Adventure!

Here’s what we got up to in Lancaster, for more on the places we visited see previous posts:

Ang goes to Lancaster

Red Peppercorn

 

Thanks for watching! 🙂